ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the analytical applications which may become prevalent, if an archaeological GIS is successfully structured and formalized. It centres on work carried out to structure archaeological data for analysis, and in particular on the formalization developed to this end. It is important to go over these papers so as to comprehend the system's general organization, as it is fundamental to the working of the system that these aspects are also structured and formalized to enable the later phases of analysis, described here, to function correctly. In order to advance analysis, and in particular to model evolution effectively, it is necessary to access spatiotemporal data efficiently, that is, to process the dimensions of both space and time in relation to other data. Because of the indirect manner in which space is addressed, associated data cannot be managed directly, and as such, cannot be used to structure an automated analytical system.
